Re: [PATCH 15 of 16] limit reclaim if enough pages have been freed

Rik van Riel
2007-06-10T17:52:32Z

Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 01:20:50PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
>> code simultaneously, all starting out at priority 12 and
>> not freeing anything until they all get to much lower
>> priorities.
>
> BTW, this reminds me that I've been wondering if 2**12 is a too small
> fraction of the lru to start the scan with.

If the system has 1 TB of RAM, it's probably too big
of a fraction :)

We need something smarter.

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